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  1. American democracy is in a fragile place.

    If you haven’t figured that out by this point, you haven’t been paying attention.

    The dangers are coming from all sides.

    🔸Donald Trump has just survived his second apparent assassination attempt.
    🔸The governor of Ohio has had to call in the state police to monitor a spate of bomb threats to local schools after falsehoods about Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs in the area began circulating.
    🔸That’s aside from all the usual mass shootings, Proud Boy marches and the rest of it.

    ⭐️But inside this fomenting turmoil,
    🧨the most dangerous spot in the whole country,
    🧨the rock on which the American state may well founder, is the quiet congressional district of #Omaha, Nebraska, the very heart of the American heartland.

    Omaha is dangerous, not in itself, but due to the entirely weird position it inhabits inside the #electoral #college.

    In one of those strange freaks of American politics, Nebraska has a ❇️ split electoral college vote,

    and for the past few elections the city of Omaha has reliably voted Democrat.

    The other two electoral districts vote solidly Republican.

    Ordinarily, this little hiccup in the system wouldn’t matter much.

    But 2024 represents a uniquely precarious moment.

    As it stands -- once you remove the settled Democrat and Republican states -- the most direct path to a Kamala Harris victory is by way of #Wisconsin, #Michigan and #Pennsylvania.

    With those three states, she would receive
    👉exactly 270 electoral college seats, the number she needs to win.

    In that case, she would win 💥if, and only if,
    💥she holds that one electoral college vote in the congressional district of Omaha, Nebraska.

    The Omaha congressional district hasn’t mattered much due to a kind of bipartisan #detente, a balance of power.

    Nebraska is not the only state that splits its electoral system by district.

    So does Maine.

    And Maine, while mostly Democratic, has a similarly reliable Republican constituency,
    which will almost certainly give its electoral college seat to Trump.

    If Nebraska changes its system to give Trump an advantage, Maine has said it will reciprocate in order to cancel out any attempt to shift the balance of power.

    Largely for this reason, the inclination to change the law has been muted in Nebraska -- even though Republicans control the statehouse.

    Having a contested electoral college seat also makes Nebraska slightly more worthy of attention from both national parties,
    meaning the current division is, to some small degree, in the interests of Nebraskans on the whole.

    Yet that state of detente may be set to unravel.

    The Maine legislature has now gone out of session

    And last Friday, #Jim #Pillen, the governor of Nebraska, made a public statement:

    “I strongly support statewide unity and joining 48 other states by awarding all five of our electoral college votes to the presidential candidate who wins the majority of Nebraskans’ votes,” he said.

    “As I have also made clear, I am willing to convene the Legislature for a special session to fix this 30-year-old problem before the 2024 election. However, I must receive clear and public indication that 33 senators are willing to vote in such a session to restore winner-take-all.”

    ➡️ Pillen is effectively deflecting the electoral college question onto the state senators,
    ♦️but he is also opening the door to the possibility of the switch, which could alter the course of the election.

    Republicans would not even need to switch the electoral college seat to win. ❗️

    They only need to muddy the waters.

    If, for example,
    🔹the Nebraska legislature ensured that their electoral college votes were in dispute,
    🔹and the courts had not decided the matter by 6 January,
    🔹and no one had reached the threshold of 270,
    ♦️that state of affairs would automatically trigger a #contingent #election.

    In a contingent election, another abstruse mechanism of the US electoral system,
    each state delegation
    -- whether it’s California or Wyoming
    -- gets a #single #vote, which means that the Republicans would always win.
    (This possibility is the subject of a book I wrote with Andrew Yang, "The Last Election".)

    The sheer boredom of what I’m describing here -- the banal technicalities of the complex legal structures in place -- may, on the surface, seem less frightening than assassination attempts and bomb threats and cooked pets and armed militias.

    But don’t misunderstand:
    🔥this is the real danger America faces.

    👉The complexity is the trap.

    The complexity makes it easy for people to believe that somehow they haven’t been tricked
    -- that a functioning democratic system, however bizarre, is still in place
    --even when it clearly isn’t anymore.

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  2. American democracy is in a fragile place.

    If you haven’t figured that out by this point, you haven’t been paying attention.

    The dangers are coming from all sides.

    🔸Donald Trump has just survived his second apparent assassination attempt.
    🔸The governor of Ohio has had to call in the state police to monitor a spate of bomb threats to local schools after falsehoods about Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs in the area began circulating.
    🔸That’s aside from all the usual mass shootings, Proud Boy marches and the rest of it.

    ⭐️But inside this fomenting turmoil,
    🧨the most dangerous spot in the whole country,
    🧨the rock on which the American state may well founder, is the quiet congressional district of #Omaha, Nebraska, the very heart of the American heartland.

    Omaha is dangerous, not in itself, but due to the entirely weird position it inhabits inside the #electoral #college.

    In one of those strange freaks of American politics, Nebraska has a ❇️ split electoral college vote,

    and for the past few elections the city of Omaha has reliably voted Democrat.

    The other two electoral districts vote solidly Republican.

    Ordinarily, this little hiccup in the system wouldn’t matter much.

    But 2024 represents a uniquely precarious moment.

    As it stands -- once you remove the settled Democrat and Republican states -- the most direct path to a Kamala Harris victory is by way of #Wisconsin, #Michigan and #Pennsylvania.

    With those three states, she would receive
    👉exactly 270 electoral college seats, the number she needs to win.

    In that case, she would win 💥if, and only if,
    💥she holds that one electoral college vote in the congressional district of Omaha, Nebraska.

    The Omaha congressional district hasn’t mattered much due to a kind of bipartisan #detente, a balance of power.

    Nebraska is not the only state that splits its electoral system by district.

    So does Maine.

    And Maine, while mostly Democratic, has a similarly reliable Republican constituency,
    which will almost certainly give its electoral college seat to Trump.

    If Nebraska changes its system to give Trump an advantage, Maine has said it will reciprocate in order to cancel out any attempt to shift the balance of power.

    Largely for this reason, the inclination to change the law has been muted in Nebraska -- even though Republicans control the statehouse.

    Having a contested electoral college seat also makes Nebraska slightly more worthy of attention from both national parties,
    meaning the current division is, to some small degree, in the interests of Nebraskans on the whole.

    Yet that state of detente may be set to unravel.

    The Maine legislature has now gone out of session

    And last Friday, #Jim #Pillen, the governor of Nebraska, made a public statement:

    “I strongly support statewide unity and joining 48 other states by awarding all five of our electoral college votes to the presidential candidate who wins the majority of Nebraskans’ votes,” he said.

    “As I have also made clear, I am willing to convene the Legislature for a special session to fix this 30-year-old problem before the 2024 election. However, I must receive clear and public indication that 33 senators are willing to vote in such a session to restore winner-take-all.”

    ➡️ Pillen is effectively deflecting the electoral college question onto the state senators,
    ♦️but he is also opening the door to the possibility of the switch, which could alter the course of the election.

    Republicans would not even need to switch the electoral college seat to win. ❗️

    They only need to muddy the waters.

    If, for example,
    🔹the Nebraska legislature ensured that their electoral college votes were in dispute,
    🔹and the courts had not decided the matter by 6 January,
    🔹and no one had reached the threshold of 270,
    ♦️that state of affairs would automatically trigger a #contingent #election.

    In a contingent election, another abstruse mechanism of the US electoral system,
    each state delegation
    -- whether it’s California or Wyoming
    -- gets a #single #vote, which means that the Republicans would always win.
    (This possibility is the subject of a book I wrote with Andrew Yang, "The Last Election".)

    The sheer boredom of what I’m describing here -- the banal technicalities of the complex legal structures in place -- may, on the surface, seem less frightening than assassination attempts and bomb threats and cooked pets and armed militias.

    But don’t misunderstand:
    🔥this is the real danger America faces.

    👉The complexity is the trap.

    The complexity makes it easy for people to believe that somehow they haven’t been tricked
    -- that a functioning democratic system, however bizarre, is still in place
    --even when it clearly isn’t anymore.

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  3. American democracy is in a fragile place.

    If you haven’t figured that out by this point, you haven’t been paying attention.

    The dangers are coming from all sides.

    🔸Donald Trump has just survived his second apparent assassination attempt.
    🔸The governor of Ohio has had to call in the state police to monitor a spate of bomb threats to local schools after falsehoods about Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs in the area began circulating.
    🔸That’s aside from all the usual mass shootings, Proud Boy marches and the rest of it.

    ⭐️But inside this fomenting turmoil,
    🧨the most dangerous spot in the whole country,
    🧨the rock on which the American state may well founder, is the quiet congressional district of #Omaha, Nebraska, the very heart of the American heartland.

    Omaha is dangerous, not in itself, but due to the entirely weird position it inhabits inside the #electoral #college.

    In one of those strange freaks of American politics, Nebraska has a ❇️ split electoral college vote,

    and for the past few elections the city of Omaha has reliably voted Democrat.

    The other two electoral districts vote solidly Republican.

    Ordinarily, this little hiccup in the system wouldn’t matter much.

    But 2024 represents a uniquely precarious moment.

    As it stands -- once you remove the settled Democrat and Republican states -- the most direct path to a Kamala Harris victory is by way of #Wisconsin, #Michigan and #Pennsylvania.

    With those three states, she would receive
    👉exactly 270 electoral college seats, the number she needs to win.

    In that case, she would win 💥if, and only if,
    💥she holds that one electoral college vote in the congressional district of Omaha, Nebraska.

    The Omaha congressional district hasn’t mattered much due to a kind of bipartisan #detente, a balance of power.

    Nebraska is not the only state that splits its electoral system by district.

    So does Maine.

    And Maine, while mostly Democratic, has a similarly reliable Republican constituency,
    which will almost certainly give its electoral college seat to Trump.

    If Nebraska changes its system to give Trump an advantage, Maine has said it will reciprocate in order to cancel out any attempt to shift the balance of power.

    Largely for this reason, the inclination to change the law has been muted in Nebraska -- even though Republicans control the statehouse.

    Having a contested electoral college seat also makes Nebraska slightly more worthy of attention from both national parties,
    meaning the current division is, to some small degree, in the interests of Nebraskans on the whole.

    Yet that state of detente may be set to unravel.

    The Maine legislature has now gone out of session

    And last Friday, #Jim #Pillen, the governor of Nebraska, made a public statement:

    “I strongly support statewide unity and joining 48 other states by awarding all five of our electoral college votes to the presidential candidate who wins the majority of Nebraskans’ votes,” he said.

    “As I have also made clear, I am willing to convene the Legislature for a special session to fix this 30-year-old problem before the 2024 election. However, I must receive clear and public indication that 33 senators are willing to vote in such a session to restore winner-take-all.”

    ➡️ Pillen is effectively deflecting the electoral college question onto the state senators,
    ♦️but he is also opening the door to the possibility of the switch, which could alter the course of the election.

    Republicans would not even need to switch the electoral college seat to win. ❗️

    They only need to muddy the waters.

    If, for example,
    🔹the Nebraska legislature ensured that their electoral college votes were in dispute,
    🔹and the courts had not decided the matter by 6 January,
    🔹and no one had reached the threshold of 270,
    ♦️that state of affairs would automatically trigger a #contingent #election.

    In a contingent election, another abstruse mechanism of the US electoral system,
    each state delegation
    -- whether it’s California or Wyoming
    -- gets a #single #vote, which means that the Republicans would always win.
    (This possibility is the subject of a book I wrote with Andrew Yang, "The Last Election".)

    The sheer boredom of what I’m describing here -- the banal technicalities of the complex legal structures in place -- may, on the surface, seem less frightening than assassination attempts and bomb threats and cooked pets and armed militias.

    But don’t misunderstand:
    🔥this is the real danger America faces.

    👉The complexity is the trap.

    The complexity makes it easy for people to believe that somehow they haven’t been tricked
    -- that a functioning democratic system, however bizarre, is still in place
    --even when it clearly isn’t anymore.

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  4. American democracy is in a fragile place.

    If you haven’t figured that out by this point, you haven’t been paying attention.

    The dangers are coming from all sides.

    🔸Donald Trump has just survived his second apparent assassination attempt.
    🔸The governor of Ohio has had to call in the state police to monitor a spate of bomb threats to local schools after falsehoods about Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs in the area began circulating.
    🔸That’s aside from all the usual mass shootings, Proud Boy marches and the rest of it.

    ⭐️But inside this fomenting turmoil,
    🧨the most dangerous spot in the whole country,
    🧨the rock on which the American state may well founder, is the quiet congressional district of #Omaha, Nebraska, the very heart of the American heartland.

    Omaha is dangerous, not in itself, but due to the entirely weird position it inhabits inside the #electoral #college.

    In one of those strange freaks of American politics, Nebraska has a ❇️ split electoral college vote,

    and for the past few elections the city of Omaha has reliably voted Democrat.

    The other two electoral districts vote solidly Republican.

    Ordinarily, this little hiccup in the system wouldn’t matter much.

    But 2024 represents a uniquely precarious moment.

    As it stands -- once you remove the settled Democrat and Republican states -- the most direct path to a Kamala Harris victory is by way of #Wisconsin, #Michigan and #Pennsylvania.

    With those three states, she would receive
    👉exactly 270 electoral college seats, the number she needs to win.

    In that case, she would win 💥if, and only if,
    💥she holds that one electoral college vote in the congressional district of Omaha, Nebraska.

    The Omaha congressional district hasn’t mattered much due to a kind of bipartisan #detente, a balance of power.

    Nebraska is not the only state that splits its electoral system by district.

    So does Maine.

    And Maine, while mostly Democratic, has a similarly reliable Republican constituency,
    which will almost certainly give its electoral college seat to Trump.

    If Nebraska changes its system to give Trump an advantage, Maine has said it will reciprocate in order to cancel out any attempt to shift the balance of power.

    Largely for this reason, the inclination to change the law has been muted in Nebraska -- even though Republicans control the statehouse.

    Having a contested electoral college seat also makes Nebraska slightly more worthy of attention from both national parties,
    meaning the current division is, to some small degree, in the interests of Nebraskans on the whole.

    Yet that state of detente may be set to unravel.

    The Maine legislature has now gone out of session

    And last Friday, #Jim #Pillen, the governor of Nebraska, made a public statement:

    “I strongly support statewide unity and joining 48 other states by awarding all five of our electoral college votes to the presidential candidate who wins the majority of Nebraskans’ votes,” he said.

    “As I have also made clear, I am willing to convene the Legislature for a special session to fix this 30-year-old problem before the 2024 election. However, I must receive clear and public indication that 33 senators are willing to vote in such a session to restore winner-take-all.”

    ➡️ Pillen is effectively deflecting the electoral college question onto the state senators,
    ♦️but he is also opening the door to the possibility of the switch, which could alter the course of the election.

    Republicans would not even need to switch the electoral college seat to win. ❗️

    They only need to muddy the waters.

    If, for example,
    🔹the Nebraska legislature ensured that their electoral college votes were in dispute,
    🔹and the courts had not decided the matter by 6 January,
    🔹and no one had reached the threshold of 270,
    ♦️that state of affairs would automatically trigger a #contingent #election.

    In a contingent election, another abstruse mechanism of the US electoral system,
    each state delegation
    -- whether it’s California or Wyoming
    -- gets a #single #vote, which means that the Republicans would always win.
    (This possibility is the subject of a book I wrote with Andrew Yang, "The Last Election".)

    The sheer boredom of what I’m describing here -- the banal technicalities of the complex legal structures in place -- may, on the surface, seem less frightening than assassination attempts and bomb threats and cooked pets and armed militias.

    But don’t misunderstand:
    🔥this is the real danger America faces.

    👉The complexity is the trap.

    The complexity makes it easy for people to believe that somehow they haven’t been tricked
    -- that a functioning democratic system, however bizarre, is still in place
    --even when it clearly isn’t anymore.

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  5. American democracy is in a fragile place.

    If you haven’t figured that out by this point, you haven’t been paying attention.

    The dangers are coming from all sides.

    🔸Donald Trump has just survived his second apparent assassination attempt.
    🔸The governor of Ohio has had to call in the state police to monitor a spate of bomb threats to local schools after falsehoods about Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs in the area began circulating.
    🔸That’s aside from all the usual mass shootings, Proud Boy marches and the rest of it.

    ⭐️But inside this fomenting turmoil,
    🧨the most dangerous spot in the whole country,
    🧨the rock on which the American state may well founder, is the quiet congressional district of #Omaha, Nebraska, the very heart of the American heartland.

    Omaha is dangerous, not in itself, but due to the entirely weird position it inhabits inside the #electoral #college.

    In one of those strange freaks of American politics, Nebraska has a ❇️ split electoral college vote,

    and for the past few elections the city of Omaha has reliably voted Democrat.

    The other two electoral districts vote solidly Republican.

    Ordinarily, this little hiccup in the system wouldn’t matter much.

    But 2024 represents a uniquely precarious moment.

    As it stands -- once you remove the settled Democrat and Republican states -- the most direct path to a Kamala Harris victory is by way of #Wisconsin, #Michigan and #Pennsylvania.

    With those three states, she would receive
    👉exactly 270 electoral college seats, the number she needs to win.

    In that case, she would win 💥if, and only if,
    💥she holds that one electoral college vote in the congressional district of Omaha, Nebraska.

    The Omaha congressional district hasn’t mattered much due to a kind of bipartisan #detente, a balance of power.

    Nebraska is not the only state that splits its electoral system by district.

    So does Maine.

    And Maine, while mostly Democratic, has a similarly reliable Republican constituency,
    which will almost certainly give its electoral college seat to Trump.

    If Nebraska changes its system to give Trump an advantage, Maine has said it will reciprocate in order to cancel out any attempt to shift the balance of power.

    Largely for this reason, the inclination to change the law has been muted in Nebraska -- even though Republicans control the statehouse.

    Having a contested electoral college seat also makes Nebraska slightly more worthy of attention from both national parties,
    meaning the current division is, to some small degree, in the interests of Nebraskans on the whole.

    Yet that state of detente may be set to unravel.

    The Maine legislature has now gone out of session

    And last Friday, #Jim #Pillen, the governor of Nebraska, made a public statement:

    “I strongly support statewide unity and joining 48 other states by awarding all five of our electoral college votes to the presidential candidate who wins the majority of Nebraskans’ votes,” he said.

    “As I have also made clear, I am willing to convene the Legislature for a special session to fix this 30-year-old problem before the 2024 election. However, I must receive clear and public indication that 33 senators are willing to vote in such a session to restore winner-take-all.”

    ➡️ Pillen is effectively deflecting the electoral college question onto the state senators,
    ♦️but he is also opening the door to the possibility of the switch, which could alter the course of the election.

    Republicans would not even need to switch the electoral college seat to win. ❗️

    They only need to muddy the waters.

    If, for example,
    🔹the Nebraska legislature ensured that their electoral college votes were in dispute,
    🔹and the courts had not decided the matter by 6 January,
    🔹and no one had reached the threshold of 270,
    ♦️that state of affairs would automatically trigger a #contingent #election.

    In a contingent election, another abstruse mechanism of the US electoral system,
    each state delegation
    -- whether it’s California or Wyoming
    -- gets a #single #vote, which means that the Republicans would always win.
    (This possibility is the subject of a book I wrote with Andrew Yang, "The Last Election".)

    The sheer boredom of what I’m describing here -- the banal technicalities of the complex legal structures in place -- may, on the surface, seem less frightening than assassination attempts and bomb threats and cooked pets and armed militias.

    But don’t misunderstand:
    🔥this is the real danger America faces.

    👉The complexity is the trap.

    The complexity makes it easy for people to believe that somehow they haven’t been tricked
    -- that a functioning democratic system, however bizarre, is still in place
    --even when it clearly isn’t anymore.

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  6. CW: uspol

    (18 Nov) UPDATED: Majority of out LGBTQ+ Ohio candidates win in November 4 General Election

    /2025/11/18/lgbtq-election-november-2025/

    #2025-general-election #2025-november-election #ari-childrey #brenna-reynolds #connor-moreton #gay-ohio #gie-may #jesse-vogel #jim-petras #kirby-samuell #kyle-herman #lgbt-ohio #lgbtq-ohio #pj-errera #politics #rebecca-maurer #ross-widener #sean-beck #transgender-ohio

  7. CW: uspol

    (05 Nov) Majority of out LGBTQ+ Ohio candidates win in November 4 General Election

    s.faithcollapsing.com/jbxjr

    Archive: ia: s.faithcollapsing.com/mz5b4

    #2025-general-election #2025-november-election #ari-childrey #brenna-reynolds #connor-moreton #gay-ohio #gie-may #jesse-vogel #jim-petras #kirby-samuell #kyle-herman #lgbt-ohio #lgbtq-ohio #pj-errera #politics #rebecca-maurer #ross-widener #sean-beck #transgender-ohio

  8. 🕰️🩷🫂🍾🌊*Time in a Bottle!🌊🍾🩷🫂🕰️

    💛🍾🌊🕰️*But there never seems to be enough time
    To do the things you want to do, once you find them
    I've looked around enough to know
    That you're the one I want to go through the time with!🕰️🩷🫂🍾🌊👉

    #Lyrics #To #Song #Time #In #A #Bottle #By #Jim #Croce

  9. 🕰️🩷🫂🍾🌊*Time in a Bottle!🌊🍾🩷🫂🕰️

    💛🍾🌊🕰️*But there never seems to be enough time
    To do the things you want to do, once you find them
    I've looked around enough to know
    That you're the one I want to go through the time with!🕰️🩷🫂🍾🌊👉

    #Lyrics #To #Song #Time #In #A #Bottle #By #Jim #Croce

  10. 🕰️🩷🫂🍾🌊*Time in a Bottle!🌊🍾🩷🫂🕰️

    💛🍾🌊🕰️*If I had a box just for wishes
    And dreams that had never come true
    The box would be empty, except for the memory of how
    They were answered by you!🕰️🩷🫂🍾🌊👉

    #Lyrics #To #Song #Time #In #A #Bottle #By #Jim #Croce

  11. 🕰️🩷🫂🍾🌊*Time in a Bottle!🌊🍾🩷🫂🕰️

    💛🍾🌊🕰️*If I had a box just for wishes
    And dreams that had never come true
    The box would be empty, except for the memory of how
    They were answered by you!🕰️🩷🫂🍾🌊👉

    #Lyrics #To #Song #Time #In #A #Bottle #By #Jim #Croce

  12. 🕰️🩷🫂🍾🌊*Time in a Bottle!🌊🍾🩷🫂🕰️

    💛🍾🌊🕰️*But there never seems to be enough time
    To do the things you want to do, once you find them
    I've looked around enough to know
    That you're the one I want to go through time with!🕰️🩷🫂🍾🌊👉

    #Lyrics #To #Song #Time #In #A #Bottle #By #Jim #Croce

  13. 🕰️🩷🫂🍾🌊*Time in a Bottle!🌊🍾🩷🫂🕰️

    💛🍾🌊🕰️*But there never seems to be enough time
    To do the things you want to do, once you find them
    I've looked around enough to know
    That you're the one I want to go through time with!🕰️🩷🫂🍾🌊👉

    #Lyrics #To #Song #Time #In #A #Bottle #By #Jim #Croce

  14. 🕰️🩷🫂🍾🌊*Time in a Bottle!🌊🍾🩷🫂🕰️

    💛🍾🌊🕰️*If I could make days last forever
    If words could make wishes come true
    I'd save every day like a treasure and then
    Again, I would spend them with you!🕰️🩷🫂🍾🌊👉

    #Lyrics #To #Song #Time #In #A #Bottle #By #Jim #Croce

  15. 🕰️🩷🫂🍾🌊*Time in a Bottle!🌊🍾🩷🫂🕰️

    💛🍾🌊🕰️*If I could make days last forever
    If words could make wishes come true
    I'd save every day like a treasure and then
    Again, I would spend them with you!🕰️🩷🫂🍾🌊👉

    #Lyrics #To #Song #Time #In #A #Bottle #By #Jim #Croce

  16. 🕰️🩷🫂🍾🌊*Time in a Bottle!🌊🍾🩷🫂🕰️

    💛🍾🌊🕰️*If I could save time in a bottle
    The first thing that I'd like to do
    Is to save every day till eternity passes away
    Just to spend them with you!🕰️🩷🫂🍾🌊👉

    #Lyrics #To #Song #Time #In #A #Bottle #By #Jim #Croce

  17. 🕰️🩷🫂🍾🌊*Time in a Bottle!🌊🍾🩷🫂🕰️

    💛🍾🌊🕰️*If I could save time in a bottle
    The first thing that I'd like to do
    Is to save every day till eternity passes away
    Just to spend them with you!🕰️🩷🫂🍾🌊👉

    #Lyrics #To #Song #Time #In #A #Bottle #By #Jim #Croce

  18. Until Sen. Bernie Sanders began holding rallies in Republican-held districts to address DOGE’s destructive impact on federal workers and programs,
    most progressives had not dared to dream of rural America as fertile ground for a backlash.
    But it’s central to the concept of the "Rural Urban Bridge Initiative" ( #RUBI ),
    a group determined to breathe new life into rural organizing strategies.

    Conceived in early 2020 by
    #Anthony #Flaccavento, a small farmer, former Democratic congressional candidate,
    and community organizer in southern Virginia, and
    #Erica #Etelson,
    a political writer and former public-interest attorney based in California,
    -- RUBI is kindling a new way to approach -- and ultimately advance -- rural concerns within the progressive movement.

    Through training sessions,
    reports from local experts,
    policy development,
    and traditional volunteer work,
    RUBI hopes to #depolarize rural politics and persuade other activist groups to #engage in good faith with the needs, fears, and aspirations of rural communities.

    RUBI’s most prominent effort to date is its campaign to convince the "Democratic National Committee" and the broader fundraising network on the left
    👉to devote substantially more resources to rural causes.

    Since #Ken #Martin, chair of the "Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party",
    was elected in February to head the DNC,
    RUBI has lobbied him to allocate $400 million
    —10 percent of the Democratic ad buy for the 2024 general election
    —toward rural districts and candidates.

    Although RUBI has yet to secure Martin’s commitment,
    co-signatories to the public letter include Rep. #Ro #Khanna (D-CA),
    author and sociologist #Arlie #Hochschild,
    veteran Texas populist #Jim #Hightower,
    two state party chairs
    and dozens of county committees,
    and scores of other individuals and organizations
    alarmed by Democratic decline in rural areas.

    ✅ Rural strategists hope to change the narrative and trajectory of American politics by transforming the everyday ways progressives think of and relate to left-behind Americans.

    Regardless of the DNC’s final decision,
    the campaign testifies to the perseverance of rural progressive populism.

    It reflects, too, a growing recognition on the part of local groups committed to the welfare of rural workers
    -- that they are not isolated in their anger over how national Democrats have burned through billions of dollars in the last several election cycles without improving their position in a single “purple” state.

    🆘During Barack Obama’s presidency, Democrats lost well over a thousand congressional, statewide, and local down-ballot offices.

    Tentative gains in critical presidential swing states since 2018 have been largely offset by Trump’s comeback;
    -- He won all seven in November.

    Other states where Democrats used to be competitive across the board,
    such as Florida and Ohio,
    are poised to go the way of Missouri, Indiana, and Arkansas.

    A recent study from the "Carsey School of Public Policy" at the University of New Hampshire suggests that
    💯a shift among rural voters to Kamala Harris of just 3 percent could have led her to victory over Donald Trump.

    👍If even just a few dozen rural Democrats from the South and Midwest won back offices controlled by the GOP,
    there could be a tectonic shift in how the party competes at the gubernatorial, congressional, and presidential levels.

    As RUBI’s founders know well,
    it is a herculean task just to get the party elite to admit the main facts
    —that austerity, trade shocks, and monopoly power have distressed rural America
    —much less own their own culpability in these issues.

    But although it is tempting to place all the blame on party elites, the same, unfortunately, can often be said of the major progressive groups that have cropped up since the Bush years,
    Flaccavento argues. 

    The overriding focus,
    he says, on
    “call[ing] out how horrible the Republicans are 24/7”
    has left little energy to discuss what matters to rural folks:
    👉“jobs, employment, the economy, livelihoods, manufacturing, trade policy, [and] antitrust.”

    🔥This, then, is how rural strategists hope to change the narrative and trajectory of American politics:

    not through conferences, white papers, and viral media,

    ⭐️but by transforming the everyday ways progressives think of and relate to left-behind Americans.
    prospect.org/2025/03/21/2025-0

  19. REVIEW: Summer Shadows #3
    Summer Shadows #3 is an ambitious mix of eerie atmosphere, Greek mythology, and interpersonal drama, but it...
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  20. Conan the Barbarian #30 Review: A Blood-Soaked Battle for the Ages
    There are comics you read with a smile. Then there are comics that kick open the tavern door, slam a mug in your hand, throw a knife across the room, and dare you to keep up. Conan...
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  21. Conan the Barbarian #30 Review: A Blood-Soaked Battle for the Ages
    There are comics you read with a smile. Then there are comics that kick open the tavern door, slam a mug in your hand, throw a knife across the room, and dare you to keep up. Conan...
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  22. Conan the Barbarian #30 Review: A Blood-Soaked Battle for the Ages
    There are comics you read with a smile. Then there are comics that kick open the tavern door, slam a mug in your hand, throw a knife across the room, and dare you to keep up. Conan...
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  23. # Blast of the past

    This is a rare photograph composed on film of my Commodore 64 computing station. Naturally this photograph was taken many decades ago. The building has been demolished many decades ago also. The sweet memories remain

    The 1571 FDD was not installed at the moment of capture

    #RetroComputing #RetroTechnology #C64 #VIC #SID #1541_FDD #Amiga #no #programming #assembly #Jim #Butterfield #Flight #Simulator #Sublogic

  24. ♦️Edgar Uihlein Jr.’s second child, #Dick, born in 1945, grew up in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Lake Bluff and got the same sort of blue-blood education
    (Phillips Andover, Stanford)
    as his father (Hotchkiss, Princeton).

    Amid the social upheavals of the ’60s, #Dick #Uihlein didn’t waver:
    He married Liz before graduating from college in 1967,
    joined the family business and immersed himself in conservative politics.

    He worked on the 1969 Illinois congressional campaign of Phil Crane, who won a crowded Republican primary in an upset on a hardline anti-tax and anti-communist platform.

    In one of the only interviews he’s ever given, Dick Uihlein told National Review in 2018 that he got his politics from his father,
    who often went by Ed.

    At the family breakfast table growing up, Uihlein recalled,
    “My father would talk about the importance of capitalism and the evils of socialism.”

    Dick said that same year that
    “my father shared many of the same values that I have, conservative values.”

    Dick and Liz Uihlein continue to revere Edgar Jr., who died in 2005.

    Dick Uihlein named the family foundation after his father, and it now sends♦️ tens of millions of dollars to right-wing institutions.

    Among the recipients of the Ed Uihlein Family Foundation’s grants are the
    ♦️ #Federalist #Society and think tanks that have pushed misleading claims about the 2020 election, such as the #Conservative #Partnership #Institute
    and the
    #Foundation #for #Government #Accountability,
    as the Daily Beast reported.

    Tucked in toward the back of the Uline catalog released this summer,
    sent out to millions of homes and businesses,
    was a long tribute to the “wise” Edgar Uihlein Jr.

    “Father Uihlein, the head of the family, had a towering presence, and we respected his values,” wrote Liz Uihlein under a picture of her husband and father-in-law,
    recalling “frequent dinners at his house, where business, issues of the day, fishing muskies and, always, politics were discussed.”

    She ended on a note of nostalgia tinged with bitterness:

    “Living your life and raising your kids were easier in an easier time.
    There was no legalized marijuana, defund the police or social media.

    We, like so many families, were raised with a sharp moral compass.

    The rules were the rules, but it was OK.”

    The Uihleins’ political giving reflects these longings for a bygone era.

    Dick Uihlein is a major funder of the #American #Principles #Project,
    which runs ads attacking what it calls “#transgender #ideology,” #abortion and the teaching of “#critical #race #theory.”

    Last year, Uihlein weighed in on ♦️recalling four school board members in a small town north of Milwaukee because of their support for COVID-19 #safety #protocols and “#equity” training for teachers.

    More recently, in his home state of Illinois, Uihlein has spent more than♦️ $50 million to back the Republican gubernatorial candidate #Darren #Bailey, who has drawn criticism for saying the #Holocaust “doesn’t even compare” to the toll of abortions and for accusing Democrats of “putting #perversion into our schools” for adopting a sex ed bill that includes information about gender identity and same-sex couples.

    The Uihleins were huge beneficiaries of a tax provision promoted by Sen. #Ron #Johnson, R-Wisc., that was included in the Trump tax overhaul and are continuing to support the Wisconsin senator and fund attack ads against his opponent.

    For all the Uihleins’ dismay at the disorder they see consuming the country, there is one domain where they can exert near total control.

    Former employees of Uline told ProPublica the couple’s traditionalist politics govern the smallest details of how the company is run.

    For new staffers, it begins with the #dress #code in the employee handbook:
    Women are not permitted to wear pants except as part of a pantsuit or on Fridays;
    hose or stockings must be worn except during the warmer months;
    dresses “that are too short” and corduroy of any kind are strictly prohibited.

    The handbook defines “tardy” as one minute past an employee’s scheduled start time.

    Just four personal items are allowed on employees’ desks,
    with maximum dimensions of 5 inches by 7 inches.

    One former staffer at Uline’s headquarters recalled a coworker who was forced to remove several drawings done by his young child.

    “Liz would walk up and down the aisles, and if your desk looked off, you’d be written up,” he recalled.
    #Uline #Dick #Liz #Uihlein #Doug #Mastriano #Jim #Marchant #election #falsehoods #antisemitic #speech #Edgar #John #Birch #Society #fluoridation #segregation #Edwin #Walker #George #Wallace

  25. Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes
    — the mail-order boxes and grocery store bags
    — are sold by a single private company, with its name, #Uline, stamped on the bottom.

    Few Americans know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products is now
    💥fueling election deniers and other far-right candidates across the country.

    #Dick and #Liz #Uihlein of Illinois are the largest contributors to Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate #Doug #Mastriano, who attended the Jan. 6 rally and was linked to a prominent antisemite, and have given to #Jim #Marchant, the Nevada Secretary of State nominee who says he opposed the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory in 2020.

    They are major funders to groups spreading #election #falsehoods, including "Restoration of America", which, according to an internal document obtained by ProPublica, aims to “get on God’s side of the issues and stay there” and
    👉 “punish leftists.”

    Flush with profits from their shipping supply company, the Uihleins have emerged as
    ⭐️the No. 1 federal campaign donors for Republicans ahead of the November elections, and
    ⭐️the No. 2 donors overall behind liberal financier George Soros.

    The couple has spent at least $121 million on state and federal politics in the last two years alone,
    🔥fighting taxes, unions, abortion rights and marijuana legalization.

    The German-American clan made their original fortune in the 19th century as owners of the Milwaukee brewery Schlitz.

    Family members were staples of the Chicago Tribune society pages.

    In 1917, Dick’s grandfather was identified as a millionaire in a Chicago Tribune humor item about how the wealthy man had fired an unqualified chauffeur.

    When Dick and Liz Uihlein donated millions in recent years to the pro-Trump super PAC "America First Action", they were following in a family tradition.

    Edgar J. Uihlein of Chicago was among the handful of largest donors to the original "America First Committee", the aviator Charles Lindbergh’s group that opposed the United States’ entry into World War II.
    (It’s unclear whether that was Edgar Sr., Dick’s grandfather, or Edgar Jr., his father, who had just graduated from college.)

    While "America First" drew supporters from across the political spectrum, it was most associated with rightists.

    Uihlein’s donation was disclosed in 1941.

    Later that year, Lindbergh gave an openly #antisemitic #speech assailing Jewish influence.

    When Edgar Uihlein Sr. died in 1956, his estate was valued at $4.8 million
    — more than $50 million in today’s dollars
    — and the money was left in a trust for his heirs, newspapers reported at the time.

    Dick’s father, #Edgar Uihlein Jr., who had started a plastics company after serving in the Navy during World War II, established himself as 💥an important funder of far-right political groups in the 1960s.

    A document from 1963 identifies Edgar Uihlein Jr. as on the ⚠️National Finance Committee of the #John #Birch #Society.

    Founded a few years earlier, the group quickly became a significant force to the right of the Republican Party, known for its obsessively anti-communist politics.

    The Birchers combined hostility to New Deal social programs with lurid conspiracies, famously campaigning against “the horrors of #fluoridation,” a supposed Red plot.

    The group fiercely opposed civil rights.

    An entry in one 1963 Birch newsletter railed against the upcoming March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Martin Luther King would give his
    “I Have a Dream” speech:
    “the only good Americans who should have anything to do with this Communist-instigated mob in any way, or pay any attention to it in Washington, are the police required to maintain law and order.”

    Edgar Uihlein Jr. supported politicians who embraced #segregation.

    In early 1962, he sponsored a speech that brought to Chicago a former U.S. Army general named #Edwin #Walker.

    Walker toured the country attacking supposed communist conspiracies and civil rights, while celebrating the Southern defeat of Reconstruction, which he labeled “the tyranny within our own white race.”

    The Anti-Defamation League,
    which tracked far-right figures in the period,
    has archives showing Edgar Uihlein Jr.’s involvement with several other groups and campaigns,
    including a $1,000 contribution to the presidential campaign of segregationist #George #Wallace in 1968.

    It’s not clear when, if ever, Uihlein’s association with the John Birch Society ended.

    As late as 1977, the founder of the group wrote a long letter to him asking for money.

    propublica.org/article/uline-u

  26. Republicans also made concerns about the election a formal part of their #platform.

    “We will implement measures to secure our elections,
    including voter ID,
    highly sophisticated paper ballots,
    proof of citizenship and same-day voting.

    We will not allow the Democrats to give voting rights to illegal aliens,” the document says.

    Republicans say they are building an army of poll watchers and observers
    to watch over the vote this year.

    They’ve also appointed #Christina #Bobb,
    a lawyer facing criminal charges in Arizona for her involvement in the #fake #electors scheme,
    to head the party’s litigation efforts.

    #Lara #Logan #conspiracy #die #convention #Jim #Hoft #Gateway #Pundit #misinformation #bankruptcy #Georgia #Dominion #libelous #stolen #YMCA #non #citizen #rare #messaging #doubt #debunked #rescan #confirmed #rigged #Jr #cheating #believe #Kari #Lake

  27. Election denialism front and center at Republican national convention

    “Don’t fuck us,” #Lara #Logan, the former CBS News anchor turned to me and said.
    “If you use the word #conspiracy theorist in your story, I’m going to haunt you when I #die.”

    It was the third day of the Republican national #convention and Logan was standing in the atrium of a hotel that was once the old Pabst Brewery in Milwaukee.
    She was there to moderate a presentation by #Jim #Hoft,
    the founder of the far-right website #Gateway #Pundit, and his twin brother, Joe, who is also a contributor to the site.

    The site, which has become a launchpad for #misinformation,
    has been in hot water recently.
    The site declared #bankruptcy in April in order to delay civil suits from two #Georgia election workers and a former #Dominion Voting Systems employee who say the site defamed them.
    The site denies publishing #libelous claims against the women.

    The event billed as a “blockbuster interview” on the site’s “legal challenges and new beginnings” underscored how doubts about the outcome of the 2020 election continue to grip Republicans
    (a PRRI poll from January found that 63% of Republicans believe the 2020 election was #stolen).

    Inside and outside of the convention hall, it was clear in speeches and interviews with attendees throughout the week that doubts about the 2020 election remain,
    and the possibility of another “stolen” vote looms.

    The most direct reference to a stolen election in 2020 came in a pre-recorded video from Donald Trump
    that aired on the jumbotron each night.
    It was only one of two videos that repeated
    (the other was a goofy video of Trump doing a wiggle-type dance to the song #YMCA).

    “The most important thing we have to do is protect the vote.
    You have to keep your eyes open because these people want to cheat
    and they do cheat, and, frankly, it’s the only thing they do well,” Trump said in the video.

    Republican speakers steered clear of the 2020 election results directly,
    and instead repeatedly emphasized the threat of #non-#citizen voting,
    which is exceedingly #rare and yet nonetheless has become a central part of the party’s #messaging around elections.

    Just as Trump pointed to mail-in ballots to seed #doubt about the 2020 election,
    experts believe that the emphasis on non-citizen voting is an effort to seed doubt about the election results in 2024.

    At the Gateway Pundit event, there was little new information.
    Jim Hoft walked the 20 or so attendees
    – the event was also livestreamed on X
    – through video footage that purported to show Georgia election workers running ballots through tabulator machines several times.

    “We think this is important because in my world anyway where I grew up, you kind of count ballots two or three times,” Jim Hoft said.
    He insisted that nothing the site had published had been disproven.

    The claim that ballots were scanned multiple times in Georgia has been
    #debunked repeatedly
    and the women have both been cleared of any wrongdoing.

    If there’s an issue scanning a single ballot within a batch
    – a jam or a smudge on a ballot
    – it’s common practice for election workers to delete the incomplete batch to #rescan the entire group until they have the correct total.

    The state also conducted a hand recount of every single vote cast in the presidential race in Georgia that #confirmed Joe Biden’s win there.

    At the convention, there was little doubt that the next election could be #rigged.
    The struggle of the Biden campaign and Trump’s strong standing in the polls only increased the belief that any Democratic victory would be illegitimate.
    Speaking at an Axios event on the sidelines of the convention, Donald Trump #Jr said that if Trump lost it would be because of “#cheating”.
    “We’re going to have to make sure we have people watching [the election] very closely,” he said at the event.
    “I don’t think that Joe Biden over-performed only in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Detroit, Milwaukee
    – I just don’t #believe that’s real,” he said.

    As part of their messaging around non-citizen voting, Republicans recently passed legislation in the US House that would
    require anyone who registers to vote to show proof of citizenship.
    Speakers at the convention picked up the mantle by suggesting that Democrats had opened the borders to allow non-citizens to vote.

    #Kari #Lake, who is running for a US Senate seat in Arizona,
    falsely accused her opponent, Representative Ruben Gallego,
    of voting to “let the millions of people who poured into our country illegally cast a ballot in this upcoming election”.

    Imagining a second Biden term, Senator Rick Scott of Florida said: “It was easy for Democrats to rig the elections – they simply allowed all the non-citizens to vote.”

    “[Democrats] want illegals to vote now that they opened the border,” Steve Scalise, a top Republican in the US House, said in his speech.

    theguardian.com/us-news/articl

  28. 🌎 We are 1 day away from #InternationalMuseumDay and the #ICOM President shares what education means to her!

    📣 Remember to share your unique perspectives on #education & research!

    Remember, everyone's opinion matters!

    #IMD #IMD2024 #DIM #DIM2024 #JIM #JIM2024